Grammar Board Game

Students play game of grammar

Grammar Board Game  

Sometimes, grammar is very complicated for students at my English course. They are easy to get stressed and confused about grammar. Yesterday, they learnt the use of Present Continuous, Past Simple, and Future Simple. Teacher created a board game to review the use of the three tenses in an easiest way for them, because my students like English learning through games a lot. The board game consists of oval shapes with sentences in them. The sentences correspond the tenses with missing of adverb of time, for example, they wrote a letter; she is singing, they will go to Yogya. The shapes have three colors (red, yellow, and green) indicating the tenses. Red is for present continuous, yellow is for past simple, and green is for future simple. 

A player moves a counter on a board

Procedures:

1. Students work individually and sit in a circle based on the order of player.

2. A player throws a dice and moves his/her counter based on the number on the dice.

3. Tell to the students that when they land on the shape, they must read the sentence loudly and they must complete the sentence with the adverb of time (yesterday-past sentence; now-continuous sentence; tomorrow-future). If the player says 'yesterday' he/she steps two backwards; if the player says 'now', he/she stay on the shape; if the player says 'tomorrow', he/she steps one forward. The winner is a player coming firstly to the 'finish'.